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Morning Reads for Tuesday, April 27

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Good morning! Spring is in full bloom, and the preliminary census numbers are in!

  • At least part of why Kelly Loeffler lost the Senate runoff is because rural white Republicans stayed home on Runoff Day.
  • The Stone Mountain Park CEO announced changes to how the Confederacy is commemorated at the Park — and why these changes are “unlikely to make anyone happy.”
  • A major portion of the cuts necessary to extricate the remains of the Golden Ray from the waters off of St. Simons Island is complete, and the job is now 3/7 of the way done. 
  • The cost — and demographics — of the proposed Buckhead City. (Real talk: the nascent city obviously cannot be named the City of Buckhead, as that city already exists. But — sorry, not sorry — “Buckhead City” sounds like the name of a north Atlanta outpost of Magic City.)
  • Former Congressman Doug Collins ruled out a 2022 run for either Governor or the United States Senate. Undoubtedly causing several Georgia politicos to release a long exhale.
  • The importance of casual friendships and “weak ties,” and how we’ve lost those things during the pandemic.

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Teri

Teri Anulewicz is a Democrat who represents House District 42 in the Georgia General Assembly. She previously spent nearly a decade on the Smyrna City Council. A native New Orleanian and quasi-Texan, Teri graduated from Agnes Scott College in 1998. She's been a front page contributor since 2015, and she compiles each Tuesday's Morning Reads.

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  1. armanidog

    A regional accrediting agency is raising concerns about the possibility that the Board of Regents could tap former Gov. Sonny Perdue as the next leader of the state’s university system.
    The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges sent a letter to Regents chair Sachin Shailendra on Monday warning the system could be found “out of compliance” if the process of picking the next leader is politicized.
    In the letter, Wheelan wrote that the accrediting agency requires higher education systems to select candidates with “appropriate experience and qualifications” to lead institutions. Perdue has no experience in higher education leadership.

    Another standard requires that the governing board is not controlled by “organizations and institutions separate from it.”

    “This would include the Governor, members of the Legislature, alumni, etc.,” wrote Wheelan, who suggested the board tap an interim leader if they can’t find an appropriate candidate before the current chancellor, Steve Wrigley, retires in July.

    The agency can impose actions that include revoking a college or university’s accreditation, which prevents students from receiving federal financial aid.
    The Regents last week paused the search for the next chancellors hours after the AJC reported some members were opposed to effort to tap Perdue, a two-term Republican governor and former U.S. Agriculture secretary, to the coveted post. The 19-member board did not say how long the search would be paused.
    https://www.ajc.com/education/agency-warns-georgia-regents-against-politicizing-chancellor-search/NDBHGL3YGFB5FMPUVH6S5OHRSM/
    Ol’ Sonny gave Kemp a leg up when he appointed Kemp as acting SOS ahead of the actual SOS election.
    Sonny has quite a network going.
    I hope he goes ahead and retire.

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